Joomla  Extensions Directory (JED) is going to kick out all commercial extensions as well as free ones that are encrypted but still GPL. Joomla discover what all this is happening and coast along in the community after this decision.

With an article that has sparked immediate protests from many developers, the development team of Joomla! announced that the JED, from July 2009, will contain only extensions released under the GNU / GPL license.

In July 2009, each extension will not be released under GPL license from JED will be eliminated, resulting in loss of vision at very high.
Many have suggested the idea to open a commercial JED, but that seems to be very little to implement, since the majority of users of Joomla! tied it on open source, but also very free, a JED extensions interested to pay a small branch  Joomla!.

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